Américanas, autocracy, and autobiographical innovation : overwriting the dictator /: overwriting the dictator. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle.
• Authors: Ortiz-Vilarelle, Lisa
• Contents: Introduction: "Impossible Autobiography: Women’s Life Writing and Twentieth Century Latin American Dictatorships" Chapter 1: "I Remember Trujillo: Trujillo en Mis Memorias Denial, Shame, Martyrdom, and Nostalgia in Dominican Women’s Memoir" Remembering Trujillo: The Memoir Boom Dictator as Tragic Hero: Aída Trujillo and the Shadow of Third-Person Memoir The Daughter and the Demi-God: Fugitive Acts in Flor de Oro Trujillo’s Memoir Exposé Memoir as "Casa-Museo ": Dédé Mirabal’s Ritual Memorial and the Transmission of Memory Patremoir as Post-Dictatorial Counter-tour: Angelita Trujillo’s Publicly Private Nostalgia ¿Seguiré a Caballo? : Trujillo in the Twenty-first Century Imagination Chapter 2: "Dueña y Señora de Su Canto ": Autobiographical Depictions of the New Nicaraguan Woman Poetic Interiorismo and "The Six": Why This Is Not Testimonio Milk Poems and Blood Poems: Womanhood, Embodiment, and the New Nicaraguan Woman The Mirror Poems: Refractory and Reciprocal Recognition Chapter 3: "‘Distinguished Ladies’ and the Doctrine of Chilean Womanhood: The ‘Anti-manuals’ of Diamela Eltit, Isabel Allende and Marjorie Agosín" The Distinguished Woman Auto-surveillance and Auto-performance in Diamela Eltit’s E. Luminata "Only a Woman Could Imagine a Story Like This": Desire and Patriotism in Isabel Allende’s Aphrodite and My Invented Country Marjorie Agosín’s Filial Narrative: Producing Genres of Liberation in the Next Generation Matremoir: A Cross and A Star Patremoir: Always from Somewhere Else Chapter 4: "Exile Memory and The Paradigmatic Before-and-After in Post-1959 Cuban Women’s Life Writing" Overwriting Fidel: Zoe Valdés on How a Leftist Dictator is Still a Dictator Revisionary Exile Memory "Salida Definitiva / Definitive Departure": Ruth Behar’s Autoethnographic Memory and the Impossibility of Return Reconciling the Irreconcilable Chapter 5: "‘There is No Need for Us to Speak of Eva Perón’: Evita’s Caudillagrafia " Caudillagrafia : Autobiography as Perónist Manifesto Doctrinary Overwriting: How to Hide a Dictator Shadow and Light The Condor and the Sparrow El Simulacro : Not Even the Peróns were the Peróns Old Eva / New Evita The "Benefactress" La Presidenta / La Resentida The Heart and the Womb of Argentina Conclusion: Self-less Self-representation Conclusion: "Common Denominators: Impossible Autobiographies"
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.933581; Dictatorship in literature; Dictators in literature; Women in literature; Nationalism in literature; Autobiography -- Women authors; America -- Literatures -- Women authors
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000029512; 9781000029413; 9781000029451; 9781003018711
• Related ISBNs: 9780367893477
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